Beginner coral-ish things?

[fishnet]

I've just ordered 260 watt PC lighting for my 55 gallon tank.

Slowly, but surely, I'm improving this setup. I'd like to get one or two safe, easy starter frags/polyps. What should I start with? I've read that leathers and mushrooms (& maybe zooanthids) are the easiest to start with and will thrive under PC lighting. Any opinions? All my fish are reef safe.
I know I can't do SPS or clams... my long-term project will be a 120+ gallon in-wall reef with MH lighting... but that won't happen for years.

 

[wax32]

Leathers, mushrooms, lowlight LPS like brains and frogspawns.

 

[fishnet]

Can I actually have a brain with 260 watts of PC!?!??!! Really? I thought I would need MH, or at least VHO, for that! I'd love to have a brain (OK... that just sounds wrong...)

 

[wax32]

Hehe. By brain I mean an open brain not a maze type brain. They don't need a whole lot of light.
http://www.zooxanthellae.com
Like this: Open Brain, Trachyphyllia geoffroyi

Not like this: Maze Coral, Platygyra daedalea

 

[fishnet]

Way cool!!! I really want the open brain. That's the one. Thanks for the heads up. It would be a great addition. How are the flow requirements?

 

[wax32]

Low flow, if you see the tissue moving much at all it is too much flow.